Mount for ordnance.



No. 814,348. PATENTD MAR. 6, 1906.

W. 3. BEVANS.

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WILLIAM H. BEVANS, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNEC"ICUT.

MOUNT FOR ORDNANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

liatented March 6, 1906.

Application filed April 15, 1904. Serial No. 203,298.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BEVANS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mounts for Ordnance, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mounts for ordnance, and has particular referenoe to that class known as edestal mounts, the object of the invention eing to provide an improved construction of mount of this class having a swinging platform at each side of the breech end of the gun for the men sighting the gun, said platforms being arranged to swing with the gun in training.

ith the above object in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which" v Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mount con structed in accordance with my inventibn with the gun in position thereon; Fig. 2, a rear elevation of the mount, and Fig. 3 a top plan view of the mount with the upper part thereof removed.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings,,1 indicates the lower line portion of the mount, having a reduced ortion near its upper end receiving a rin ike support 2, carrying the antifriction-rofiers 3, contacting with said reduced ortion about which it swings. Said ring is old in position by the annular shoulder below and the gearring 4 above. Formed upon the front side of the ring are two spaced lugs 5, between which an arm 6, carried by the movable part 7 of the mount, projects, whereby when the movable part of the mount carr ingthe gun is swung upon the fixed part0 the mount the ring swings therewith.

Formed on each side of the ring is a downwardly and rearwardly inclined socket 8, in which a downwardly and rearwardly inclined arm 9 is secured. Said arms at their lower ends are attached to plates 10, intermediatel of the ends of the latter. Attached to the orward ends of the plates and to the arms 9 are braces 1 1. Connecting the plates 10 and extending transversely thereof are bars 12 which project a considerable distance beyond said plates. Thus a frame is provided upon which the latforms 13 are supported, said platforms eing independently adjustable vertically by means of adjusting-screws 14 or sing other preferred means.

y providing the platforms movable as the gun swings the gun may be trained by a man on one platform without ushing the man on the other side off his plat orm or moving the igran away from him, and thus preventing him om performing his duties, as would be the case with a fixed platform.

By making the platforms independently adjustable the may be adjusted according to the height 0 the men.

The lower portion of the mount is inclosed to form a compartment 15, to which access ma be had throu h a door 16.

avin thus ful y described my invention, what I c aim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

I. In a mount for ordnance, a ring-like supporting member movable about the fixed portion of the mount in a plane at right anglee to the vertical axis of the mount and ro vided with spaced lugs, a frame hung om said supporting member, two platforms carried by said frame disposed one at each side i of the un, means for independently adjusting said platforms vertically, and a projection carried by the movable part of the mount extending between the spaced lugs of the ringlike support.

2. In a mount for ordnance, a supportin member movable about the fixed ortion o the mount in a plane at right ang es to the vertical axis of the mount, a platform swung from said sup orting member, means for adjusting said p latform vertically, and a conneetion between said su porting member and the movable portion of the mount, whereby they move in unison.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BEVANS.

' Witnesses:

L. E. Bnans'rnnnr, WM. A. WHEELER 

